Comorbidity and disability in elderly Mexican and Mexican American adults: Findings from Mexico and the Southwestern United States

Journal of Aging and Health

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 315-329

  Patel, Kushang V ^a   Peek, M Kristen ^b   Wong, Rebeca ^c   Markides, Kyriakos S ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Chronic disease; Comorbidity; Disability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CANCER; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEXICO; PREVALENCE; STROKE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MEXICO; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES;

EID: 33646594142     PISSN: 08982643     EISSN: 15526887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0898264305285653     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Albala, C., Vio, F., & Yanez, M. (1997). Transición Epidemiológica en América Latina: Una Comparación de Cuatro Países [Epidemiological transition in Latin America: A comparison of four countries]. Revista Médica de Chile [Medical Journal of Chile], 125, 719-727.
2. Branch, L. G., Katz, S., Kniepmann, K., & Papsidero, J. A. (1984). A prospective study of functional status among community elders. American Journal of Public Health, 74, 266-268.
3. Chavez Dominguez, R., Ramirez Hernandez, J. A., & Casanova Garces, J. M. (2003). Enfermedad Cardiaca Coronaria en Méjico y su Relevancia Epidemiológica y Preventiva [Coronary heart disease in Mexico and the clinical epidemiological and preventive relevance]. Archivos de Cardiología de México [Archives of Cardiology of Mexico], 73, 105-114.
4. Elo, I. T., & Preston, S. H. (1997). Racial and ethnic differences in American mortality at older ages. In L. Martin & B. Soldo (Eds.), Racial and ethnic differences in the health of older Americans (pp. 10-42). Washington, DC: National Academy.
5. Fillenbaum, G. G., Pieper, C. F., Cohen, H. J., Cornoni-Huntley, J. C., & Guralnik, J. M. (2000). Comorbidity of five chronic health conditions in elderly community residents: Determinants and impact on mortality. The Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 55A, M84-M89.
6. Fried, L. P., Bandeen-Roche, K., Kasper, J. D., & Guralnik, J. M. (1999). Association of comorbidity with disability in older women: The women's health and aging study. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 52, 27-37.
7. Guccione, A. A., Felson, D. T., Anderson, J. J., Anthony, J. M., Zhang, Y., Wilson, P.W., et al. (1994). The effects of specific medical conditions on the functional limitations of elders in the Framingham study. American Journal of Public Health, 84, 351-358.
8. Guralnik, J. M. (1996). Assessing the impact of comorbidity in the older population. Annals of Epidemiology, 6, 376-380.
9. Guralnik, J. M., Fried L. P., & Salive, M. E. (1996). Disability as a public health outcome in the aging population. Annual Review of Public Health, 17, 25-46.
10. Hosmer, D. W., & Lemeshow, S. (1980). Goodness of fit tests for the multiple logistic regression model. Communications in Statistics, Part A - Theory and Methods, 9, 1043-1069.
11. Jette, A. M., Pinsky, J. L., Branch, L. G., Wolf, P. A., & Feinleib, M. (1988). The Framingham disability study: Physical disability among community-dwelling survivors of stroke. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 41, 719-726.
12. Katz, J. N., Chang, L. C., Sangha, O., Fossel, A. H., & Bates, D. W. (1996). Can comorbidity be measured by questionnaire rather than medical record review? Medical Care, 34, 73-84.
13. Manton, K. G., Stallard, E., & Wing, S. (1991). Analyses of Black and White differentials in the age trajectory of mortality in two closed cohort studies. Statistics in Medicine, 10, 1043-1059.
14. Markides, K. S., & Mindel, C. H. (1987). Aging and ethnicity. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
15. Markides, K. S., Rudkin, L., Angel, R. J., & Espino, D. V. (1997). Health status of Hispanic elderly. In L. G. Martin & B. J. Soldo (Eds.), Racial and ethnic differences in the health of older Americans (pp. 285-300). Washington, DC: National Academy.
16. Markides, K. S., Stroup-Benham, C. A., Goodwill, J. S., Perkowski, L. C., Lichtenstein, M., & Ray, L. A. (1996). The effect of medical conditions on the functional limitations of Mexican-American elderly. Annals of Epidemiology, 6, 386-391.??
17. Markides, K. S., & Wallace, S. (1996). Health and long-term care needs of minority elderly. In J. Romeis, R. Coe, & J. Morley (Eds.), Applying health services research to long-term care. New York: Springer.
18. Palloni, A., Pinto-Aguirre, G., & Pelaez, M. (2002). Demographic and health conditions of ageing in Latin America and the Caribbean. International Journal of Epidemiology, 31, 762-771.
19. Palloni, A., & Wyrick, R. (2004). Mortality decline in Latin America: Changes in the structure of causes of death, 1950-1975. Social Biology, 28, 187-216.
20. Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations. (2004). World fertility report: 2003. New York: Author.
21. Smith, L. A., Branch, L. G., Scherr, P. A., Wetle, T., Evans, D. A., Hebert, L., et al. (1990). Short-term variability of measures of physical function in older people. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 38, 993-998.
22. Verbrugge, L. M., Lepkowski, J. M., & Imanaka, Y. (1989). Comorbidity and its impact on disability. The Milbank Quarterly, 67, 450-484.